potential

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ considerable, enormous, great, high, huge, limitless, tremendous, vast

▪ full, maximum

▪ You aren't using your computer to its full potential.

▪ real, true

▪ unfulfilled, untapped

▪ future, long-term

▪ commercial, economic

▪ growth

▪ creative

▪ human

▪ He believes that religion allows us to develop our human potential.

VERB + POTENTIAL

▪ demonstrate, have, show

▪ This young man has enormous potential.

▪ hold, offer

▪ The new business offers great potential for growth.

▪ be aware of, recognize, see

▪ John Cadbury could see the potential for his product.

▪ develop, exploit, explore, unlock

▪ They were among the first companies to exploit the potential of the Internet.

▪ achieve, fulfil/fulfill, maximize, reach, realize

▪ his dream of fulfilling his true potential

▪ increase, reduce

PREPOSITION

▪ with potential

▪ We're looking for a trainee with potential.

▪ potential as

▪ She showed great potential as an actor.

▪ potential for

▪ an industry that has the potential for growth
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adj.

Potential is used with these nouns: ↑advantage, ↑ally, ↑ambiguity, ↑applicant, ↑application, ↑audience, ↑avenue, ↑benefit, ↑bias, ↑buyer, ↑candidate, ↑capability, ↑catastrophe, ↑client, ↑competitor, ↑complication, ↑conflict, ↑consequence, ↑consumer, ↑contamination, ↑cost, ↑criminal, ↑crisis, ↑cure, ↑customer, ↑damage, ↑danger, ↑demand, ↑difference, ↑difficulty, ↑disadvantage, ↑disaster, ↑donor, ↑drawback, ↑effect, ↑effectiveness, ↑embarrassment, ↑employee, ↑employer, ↑enemy, ↑entrepreneur, ↑gain, ↑greatness, ↑hazard, ↑hire, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑importance, ↑improvement, ↑influence, ↑investor, ↑killer, ↑limitation, ↑link, ↑litigation, ↑lover, ↑mate, ↑member, ↑merger, ↑murderer, ↑participant, ↑peril, ↑pitfall, ↑problem, ↑profit, ↑profitability, ↑rapist, ↑recruit, ↑relevance, ↑repercussion, ↑replacement, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑reward, ↑risk, ↑rival, ↑roadblock, ↑role, ↑saving, ↑saviour, ↑shortcoming, ↑side effect, ↑significance, ↑site, ↑snag, ↑source, ↑sponsor, ↑stumbling block, ↑successor, ↑suspect, ↑target, ↑tenant, ↑terrorist, ↑threat, ↑trap, ↑trouble, ↑turning point, ↑use, ↑usefulness, ↑user, ↑utility, ↑victim, ↑visitor, ↑volunteer, ↑voter, ↑vulnerability, ↑weakness, ↑windfall, ↑winner, ↑witness

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Potential [1] — Potential ist eine Funktion V (x, y, z) des Ortes, d.h. der Koordinaten xyz eines Punktes P, deren partielle Differentialquotienten nach den Koordinaten die Komponenten einer gerichteten Größe (Kraft, Geschwindigkeit), die diesem Punkt P… … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
potenţial — POTENŢIÁL, Ă, (I) potenţiali, e, adj., (II) potenţiale, s.n. I. adj. 1. Care are în sine toate condiţiile esenţiale pentru realizare, care există ca posibilitate, care există în mod virtual. ♢ Energie potenţială = energia pe care o poate dezvolta … Dicționar Român
Potential [2] — Potential der Verrückungen. Sind ξ, η, ζ, die Verrückungen des Körperpunktes m (x, y, z) in den Richtungen x, y, z (s. Elastizitätslehre, allgemeine), und es existiert eine Funktion F der Koordinaten x, y, z, deren… … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
Potential [5] — Potential , thermodynamisches, eine Funktion zweier oder mehrerer Unabhängigveränderlicher, die in der Thermodynamik eine ähnliche Rolle spielt wie das Potential der Kräfte nach dem Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetz in der reinen Mechanik (vgl.… … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
Potential [3] — Potential , elastisches. Die Arbeit zur Ueberwindung der inneren Kräfte (s. Verschiebungsarbeit) beliebiger Körper für den Fall, daß die Spannungen konstant wie am Ende der betreffenden Verschiebungen wären (die virtuelle Verschiebungsarbeit),… … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
Potential — Po*ten tial, a. [Cf. F. potentiel. See {Potency}.] 1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. [Obs.] And hath in his effect a voice potential. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Existing in possibility, not in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Potential — (auch Potenzial) steht für: Aktionspotential vorübergehende, charakteristische Abweichung des Membranpotentials einer lebenden Zelle von ihrem Ruhepotential Chemisches Potential thermodynamische Größe in der Chemie, gemessen in Gibbs (= J/mol)… … Deutsch Wikipedia
potential — I adjective accessible, achievable, allowable, allowed, anticipated, attainable, concealed, conceivable, covert, doable, dormant, expected, feasible, future, imaginable, latent, likely, obtainable, performable, permissible, permitted, possible,… … Law dictionary
Potential [2] — Potential (das), die Wirkungsfähigkeit oder potentielle Energie (Spannung), welche die in einem Punkte des Raumes konzentriert gedachte Masseneinheit besitzt vermöge der abstoßenden oder anziehenden Kräfte, die von andern im Raume befindlichen… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
potential — [pō ten′shəl, pəten′shəl] adj. [ME potenciall < ML potentialis < L potentia: see POTENT] 1. that has power; potent 2. that can, but has not yet, come into being; possible; latent; unrealized; undeveloped 3. Gram. expressing possibility,… … English World dictionary
Potential — Po*ten tial, n. 1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. (Math.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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